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Saab competed in the Trans Am Series in 1966, entering a 96 and a 850. Saab also entered its 9-3 in the Castrol Canadian Touring Car Championship.
Saab had a factory rally team with great successful drivers, Erik "On-the-Roof" Carlsson, Tom Trana, Simo Lampinen, Stig Blomqvist and Per Eklund. The team stopped competing in 1980. in 2012 a new Saab Rally team took part in the classic historic Midnattssolsrallyt (Rally to the Midnightsun) the team named S2AB Historic Rally team had 4 Saab 99 Turbo cars in the rally. Driven by ex. champions Ola Strömberg and Erik Uppsäll. In two regularity turbos Travis Decker and Jörgen Trued. S2AB (Swedish Advanced Automotive Business) is the company led by Magnus Roland former chassis manager at Saab.
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